Kenta Hidaka on September 2nd, 2010After looking at Daiki and Tomoe’s blog, it made me want to write too!
Now, few days has passed since we left Seattle. And I am already missing the wonderful weather in Seattle. Japan is killing me every time I go outside.
Anyways, thinking of “what should I do”, I thought to myself, I should now prepare for some exams which I am supposed to take while I am doing my job hunting! One of those tests called “SPI” I guess this is one of those Japanese things…Didn’t do mathematics since I graduated high school so things are really making irritating!! arghh!!
And also, one of the things I should be doing is the survey which Britt sent us. But I will do this when my time is ready…:) But I have done my survey for Adobe and told them how wonderful my home stay was.
Oh!! I am currently thinking of doing ANY intern’s which is available for me in Japan. Not just being satisfied with just the iLEAP and Brown paper tickets program, I thought I should do some intern in Japan as well. ( if there is any. But I will try to search for it!!) For my career I guess.
I have no plans for my holiday so I thought I should do something to make my holiday better and busy!!
Before that, I have to dye my hair black!!!!!! 
I would like to show all the tattoo’s in BPT to all the Japanese business man out there!
Kenta
Tags: Brown Paper Tickets, Ikebukuro, Kenta Hidaka, Rikkyo University, UP
Tomoe Takashima on August 31st, 2010Hello,this is Tomoe.
3 days have passed since our special experience finished.
Since I back to home, I feel like it was a dream, but it is not a dream.
As Daiki said, I think so too.
In Seattle,I got a confidence little by little.
But now,in Japan,I’m losing faith again like before coming to Seattle.
To keep having confidence, I had decided to remember Seattle life
and write it down in my diary.
From now on, my (our) story has just begun !!
UP!! UP!! UP!!
Thank you so much for your everything.
I’ll never forget such a great experience.
So, I wanna keep in touch with who related in this program
not to forget what I have learned in Seattle.
Thank you for reading !!
Tags: Ikebukuro, Rikkyo University, Tomoe Takashima, UP
Miqi Matsuura on August 31st, 2010We are currently having a guest, Mika Fujisawa, a.k.a. Chuntari, from Japan. She is a change making traveler having won scholarship money on a world trip making dreams of the world come true by benefitting from everyone’s helps and supports. Cool! She believes in 140 characters can change the world. And I truly believe so, too. The other day, she joined us visiting Fare Start restaurant (http://www.farestart.org/). We had a great yummy lunch followed by an inside tour. Will report on that later. Find out more about Mika (Chuntari), let’s visit: http://ameblo.jp/chuntari-blog/
Tags: chuntari, fare start, mika fujisawa, miqi, SIIS
Paul Samba (IF'09, Zambia) on August 31st, 2010A rather special moment for Chipembi College of Agriculture to gain prestige and connections through our American friends has come.
Michael Kraft at Chipembi College of Agriculture, Zambia
Little is known about us by our friends but Mr. Micheal Kraft is our icon who has taken his precious time to put Chipembi College of Agriculture on the website so that our activities, aspirations and bilateral understanding is made known to all our beloved friends. This inspires growth and on the other hand a reflection in the way we hope to develop our Institution to something really big by a considerable margin.
Worker weighing maize during purchase
To receive a donation was a celebration, knowing that our American friends worked very hard to help us meet the shortfall our crop. The background issue is that the crop produce for 2009/2010 season has dropped sharply due to too much rain. We experienced too much rainfall which was unfavorable for the maize, sunflower, cow peas, groundnuts and some of the vegetables. The season begun well, but there was a dry spell for about one month followed by heavy rains.
Locals Delivering Maize
A total of 161 x 50kg bags of maize were bought within the local community. From each 50kg bag, the maize is ground into 45kg of maize meal which is used to prepare nshima. This 45kg feeds 165 students per meal of nshima. Therefore the 161 bags will be ground into 7245 kg translating into 80.5 meals, which will be used for about 2.6 months.
nshima
Chipembi College students enjoying breakfast
The management, staff and students of Chipembi College of Agriculture are very grateful for these donations and wish all the best.
Paul Samba
Tags: Chipembi Farm College, Michael Kraft, Paul Samba, Zambia
iLEAP on August 31st, 2010
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